Notorious Fly Sky Airlines wants to register a Russian branch
Fly Sky Airlines, a dodgy airline operating several IL76 transport aircraft registered in various countries, intends to start a Russian branch according Russian media. In the meanwhile their Ukraine Air Operators Certificate (AOC) has been revoked, which means the airline is not allowed to fly.
Deek Aviation registered in the UAE seems to be the parent company for Fly Sky Airlines. Deek Aviation is owned by Russian national Oleg Vladimirovich Sergeev (Ukrainian Zetavia) and Valery Savelyev.
Two former Alrosa IL76 s were purchased and will be used by the Fly Sky branch in Russia. t
Fly Sky transported on behalf of the UAE government arms to Libya. There fleet of old IL76 are used for all kind of dodgy transport.
The Ukraine aviation authorities revoked the AOC per June 11 which means the airlines is not allowed to fly anymore.
Kommersant reports that three former IL76 of Alrosa were purchased by a company called Helix Airlines. The registrations are RA-76373, RA-76360 and RA-76420. Vadim Baldin is Deputy Director for Strategic Development of Heliks. RA-76420 is now registered to Aviation Company “Aviacon Tsitotrans” and was formerly owned by ZetAvia. Zetava is owned by Oleg Sergeev.
Helix was renamed to Gelix Airlines. The radio callsign ‘Russian Bird’ indicated the relation to Fly Sky Airlines Ukraine and Kyrgyz branches which use also the statename and Bird as callsign.
The Romanian branch of Fly Sky was renamed to Rom Cargo Airlines using code RCR.
Managed by Oleg Chikisev, ZetAvia was also active in Libya. Through its exclusive sales agent, Reem Style Travel & Tourism – owned by UAE-based Russian national Oleg Sergeev – according to Africa Intelligence ZetAvia has ties to two Kazakh freight companies that have also taken part in the Libyan airbridge Sigma Airlines and Air Almaty
Oleg Sergeev is also linked to an airline named Air Almaty. He owned 49% of the shares of this Kazahk airline which operated to Syria using IL76 aircraft.
Twitter user @gerjon_ found out the air operator’s certificate (AOC), a license required by an airline to be allowed to fly, as revoked by the Ukraine aviation authorities.
